04-30-2022, 01:46 PM
that was fun.... but that's it for me...
i hate words
i hate grammar
i hate spelling
i hate writing
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i hate words
i hate grammar
i hate spelling
i hate writing
04-30-2022, 01:48 PM
04-30-2022, 04:21 PM
Today, for the first time, I came across a word with repeated letters. It makes it more challenging,
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05-01-2022, 01:12 AM
@California Kid: Thanks for sharing. Yes, you are correct. It's best to use each square with a different letter to take advantage of the few chances to solve it.
My strategy is to try to guess a word with as many different vowels in it as I can (ex: the letters a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y --- depending on if y represents a vowel sound when the word is pronounced) to see if/where those letters show up in the word. After that, it's just a matter of making up 5-letter words with the remaining letters (the consonants) I haven't used yet.
@sikandar: You're doing very well. My solve for today's puzzle took all six tries but I got it. I had the second and third letters (AR) and ended up walking to the kitchen and back, adjusting my "thinking cap" before the word LARVA came to mind.
And yes, there can be instances where a letter is used more than once in a word. I discovered that the hard way early-on and ended up NOT solving correctly because I had several possible choices and chose the wrong word, not knowing that an O appeared twice in the word.
I think they should at least indicate that somehow. I know the letter shows in gold if it is in the word but in the wrong place and in green if it is in the word and in the right place. I don't know why they couldn't put a tiny number in the upper right of the square/tile if you guess the correct letter AND have it in its correct space in the word. That would give you a hint that the letter you have successfully guessed appears in another place (or places) in the word. Maybe they think that would make it too easy to solve, especially if most of the other letters have already been guessed.
Despite that annoyance, I still love Wordle. It can be a challenge some days more than others but I love anything word-related, so I'm game.
Thank you to everyone who posted their solutions. Not only does this keep the thread active longer, bringing it up for more BBHFers to see, but I thought it would be a fun challenge to post our results to encourage/inspire others to try their hand at it. Once you do, it's addictive --- if you enjoy solving word puzzles.
This thread has done far better in the number of Views than I anticipated it would, for the subject matter. Unfortunately, like most BBHF threads, it has gotten far more lurkers than active participants.
for reading!
Layna61524
My strategy is to try to guess a word with as many different vowels in it as I can (ex: the letters a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y --- depending on if y represents a vowel sound when the word is pronounced) to see if/where those letters show up in the word. After that, it's just a matter of making up 5-letter words with the remaining letters (the consonants) I haven't used yet.
@sikandar: You're doing very well. My solve for today's puzzle took all six tries but I got it. I had the second and third letters (AR) and ended up walking to the kitchen and back, adjusting my "thinking cap" before the word LARVA came to mind.
And yes, there can be instances where a letter is used more than once in a word. I discovered that the hard way early-on and ended up NOT solving correctly because I had several possible choices and chose the wrong word, not knowing that an O appeared twice in the word.
I think they should at least indicate that somehow. I know the letter shows in gold if it is in the word but in the wrong place and in green if it is in the word and in the right place. I don't know why they couldn't put a tiny number in the upper right of the square/tile if you guess the correct letter AND have it in its correct space in the word. That would give you a hint that the letter you have successfully guessed appears in another place (or places) in the word. Maybe they think that would make it too easy to solve, especially if most of the other letters have already been guessed.
Despite that annoyance, I still love Wordle. It can be a challenge some days more than others but I love anything word-related, so I'm game.
Thank you to everyone who posted their solutions. Not only does this keep the thread active longer, bringing it up for more BBHFers to see, but I thought it would be a fun challenge to post our results to encourage/inspire others to try their hand at it. Once you do, it's addictive --- if you enjoy solving word puzzles.
This thread has done far better in the number of Views than I anticipated it would, for the subject matter. Unfortunately, like most BBHF threads, it has gotten far more lurkers than active participants.
for reading!
Layna61524
05-05-2022, 11:07 PM
05-05-2022, 11:25 PM
05-06-2022, 03:30 AM
@10der1: Hi, friend. I know I went over some of this earlier but here are some tips you should keep in mind when playing Wordle for best results:
* Start off by thinking of a simple word. That word could be a noun, verb, adjective or any other part of speech but for best results, begin with a noun. As we were taught in elementary school ---or learned from the animated children's TV show, School House Rock --- a noun is a person, place or thing. The Wordle clue will be a word that is commonly used that any literate person will be familiar with.
* Do not use proper names, trademarked or corporate names, etc. Stick with ordinary, commonly used 5-letter words only. Guessing MARIA or EXXON are not wise choices but (good for Wordle) it won't use an errant guess just because that word is not in its approved words list. It simply tells you the word is not a word and allows you to start over on that same tier. Non-word guesses are automatically null-and-void.
* Try to guess a starting word that has five different letters (a strategy California Kid mentions in post #52). So guessing LOUSY is better than guessing LOONY because the letter O appears twice in the latter, which uses up two spaces in your word guess with the same letter. Using different letters of the alphabet is a very good strategy. It allows you to eliminate more letters sooner (the gray tiles mean those letters are NOT in the solution) and narrow down your guesses more accurately.
* Use words that contain one or more of the vowels: A, E, I, O, U and sometimes (but not always), Y. Without getting too deep into when Y is a vowel and when it is a consonant, let me mention that the letter "Y" becomes a vowel when it is joined to another vowel to form one emphasized sound in speech. For example, words where Y is next to another vowel to form a strong vowel sound, such as in the words boy or money. Another instance is if the word has no other vowel, so the Y in the word gym. Generally speaking, the letter Y becomes a consonant when it appears at the start of a word or syllable (ex: yard, lawyer).
* Use the clues that Wordle gives you. Remember, a gray tile = the letter you guessed is not in the solution at all; a gold tile = the letter is in the word but it is in the wrong place so you have to move that letter to another place within the word; and a green tile = BINGO! Not only is the letter you guessed in the word but you've got it right where it needs to be, so you want to keep that letter where it is as you make further guesses.
* Plug in different unused letters from Wordle's keyboard to help solve the puzzle but be sure you have used all the clues from previous guesses to your advantage.
* If there is more than one possible solution, use the word you feel strongest about. One's intuition can play an important role in finding solutions.
Here's my solve for today's Wordle (and notes on using Wordle's clues)...
![[Image: LWR_Recording.png]](https://content.screencast.com/users/layna61524/folders/Capture/media/ad5e111d-660c-4995-aa43-caef15d2b7b5/LWR_Recording.png)
So below I tell you what I did at each stage of play and what Wordle told me about my guesses. More importantly, here's how I used Wordle's guidance to help me solve the puzzle.
FIRST GUESS: Notice that my first guess was a word with totally different letters. I guessed CREST (as in the top of a hill or mountain or the comb of feathers, fur or skin of a bird's or other animal's head). Based on Wordle's feedback, I am now aware that the letters C, S and T are NOT in the solution. So moving forward, it is a good idea for me to avoid using those letters in future guesses. By way of returning the letters R and E on gold tiles, Wordle hinted to me that those letters are in the solution but out of position, so I need to move them elsewhere.
SECOND GUESS: I tried to guess a word that has the letters R and E in them. I decided to transpose (flip or switch) the letters so that R and E became E and R in the word. I then guessed EAGER. Wordle told me that the word had the letters E and R in the word AND they are now in the correct position. Now, all I have to do is fill in the first 3 tiles to solve the puzzle.
THIRD GUESS: Looking at Wordle's keyboard at the bottom of the screen, I began looking for letters I could use to make a common word ending in ER. The possibilities seem endless at first but when restricted to a word with only 5 letters, that narrows considerably.
I then tossed around several of the unused letters from Wordle's keyboard before I decided to use another vowel in the word. Knowing that the letter A did not belong in the word (based on my first guess) and that I had successfully placed the letter E in the word in the right position, I had a choice of using the other vowels: I, O, U and Y. I settled on O, looking for a word that has O in it and ends in ER. The first word that came to mind was HOMER.
RESULT: And, EUREKA! That was it! Part strategy-part lucky guess.
NOTE: I've already said it bugs me that a letter can be used more than once in the solution yet Wordle does not give you any indication of that. If you successfully guess a letter that appears multiple times in the word, there should (at least) be a small asterisk or some symbol inside the green tile to indicate that. It then becomes your challenge to guess where else in the word to position that letter.
But that's just me.
To sum things up, solving Wordle takes a combination of having mad word-love, using a bit of deductive reasoning and trying your luck. It's just a game. A really FUN game, but a game nonetheless.
If you're not a patient type or tend to ignore the clues in your efforts to solve Wordle, you won't.
All-in-all, don't be discouraged with your initial results. Keep on keeping on!
I absolutely
Wordle but I'm a huge WORD NERD --- a logophile, I believe it's called.
for reading!
Layna61524
* Start off by thinking of a simple word. That word could be a noun, verb, adjective or any other part of speech but for best results, begin with a noun. As we were taught in elementary school ---or learned from the animated children's TV show, School House Rock --- a noun is a person, place or thing. The Wordle clue will be a word that is commonly used that any literate person will be familiar with.
* Do not use proper names, trademarked or corporate names, etc. Stick with ordinary, commonly used 5-letter words only. Guessing MARIA or EXXON are not wise choices but (good for Wordle) it won't use an errant guess just because that word is not in its approved words list. It simply tells you the word is not a word and allows you to start over on that same tier. Non-word guesses are automatically null-and-void.
* Try to guess a starting word that has five different letters (a strategy California Kid mentions in post #52). So guessing LOUSY is better than guessing LOONY because the letter O appears twice in the latter, which uses up two spaces in your word guess with the same letter. Using different letters of the alphabet is a very good strategy. It allows you to eliminate more letters sooner (the gray tiles mean those letters are NOT in the solution) and narrow down your guesses more accurately.
* Use words that contain one or more of the vowels: A, E, I, O, U and sometimes (but not always), Y. Without getting too deep into when Y is a vowel and when it is a consonant, let me mention that the letter "Y" becomes a vowel when it is joined to another vowel to form one emphasized sound in speech. For example, words where Y is next to another vowel to form a strong vowel sound, such as in the words boy or money. Another instance is if the word has no other vowel, so the Y in the word gym. Generally speaking, the letter Y becomes a consonant when it appears at the start of a word or syllable (ex: yard, lawyer).
* Use the clues that Wordle gives you. Remember, a gray tile = the letter you guessed is not in the solution at all; a gold tile = the letter is in the word but it is in the wrong place so you have to move that letter to another place within the word; and a green tile = BINGO! Not only is the letter you guessed in the word but you've got it right where it needs to be, so you want to keep that letter where it is as you make further guesses.
* Plug in different unused letters from Wordle's keyboard to help solve the puzzle but be sure you have used all the clues from previous guesses to your advantage.
* If there is more than one possible solution, use the word you feel strongest about. One's intuition can play an important role in finding solutions.
Here's my solve for today's Wordle (and notes on using Wordle's clues)...
LAYNA'S WORDLE
Thursday, May 5, 2022
So below I tell you what I did at each stage of play and what Wordle told me about my guesses. More importantly, here's how I used Wordle's guidance to help me solve the puzzle.
FIRST GUESS: Notice that my first guess was a word with totally different letters. I guessed CREST (as in the top of a hill or mountain or the comb of feathers, fur or skin of a bird's or other animal's head). Based on Wordle's feedback, I am now aware that the letters C, S and T are NOT in the solution. So moving forward, it is a good idea for me to avoid using those letters in future guesses. By way of returning the letters R and E on gold tiles, Wordle hinted to me that those letters are in the solution but out of position, so I need to move them elsewhere.
SECOND GUESS: I tried to guess a word that has the letters R and E in them. I decided to transpose (flip or switch) the letters so that R and E became E and R in the word. I then guessed EAGER. Wordle told me that the word had the letters E and R in the word AND they are now in the correct position. Now, all I have to do is fill in the first 3 tiles to solve the puzzle.
THIRD GUESS: Looking at Wordle's keyboard at the bottom of the screen, I began looking for letters I could use to make a common word ending in ER. The possibilities seem endless at first but when restricted to a word with only 5 letters, that narrows considerably.
I then tossed around several of the unused letters from Wordle's keyboard before I decided to use another vowel in the word. Knowing that the letter A did not belong in the word (based on my first guess) and that I had successfully placed the letter E in the word in the right position, I had a choice of using the other vowels: I, O, U and Y. I settled on O, looking for a word that has O in it and ends in ER. The first word that came to mind was HOMER.
RESULT: And, EUREKA! That was it! Part strategy-part lucky guess.
NOTE: I've already said it bugs me that a letter can be used more than once in the solution yet Wordle does not give you any indication of that. If you successfully guess a letter that appears multiple times in the word, there should (at least) be a small asterisk or some symbol inside the green tile to indicate that. It then becomes your challenge to guess where else in the word to position that letter.
But that's just me.
To sum things up, solving Wordle takes a combination of having mad word-love, using a bit of deductive reasoning and trying your luck. It's just a game. A really FUN game, but a game nonetheless.
If you're not a patient type or tend to ignore the clues in your efforts to solve Wordle, you won't.
All-in-all, don't be discouraged with your initial results. Keep on keeping on!
I absolutely
Wordle but I'm a huge WORD NERD --- a logophile, I believe it's called. for reading!
Layna61524
05-06-2022, 05:21 PM
@10der1 - Instructions from Layna61524 are excellent. I'd also suggest that you use your skill of creating anagrams by using letters that are already fixed. An Anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a given word. This can help you to choose the correct word from many choices.
In the following example, I started with the general word IDEAL as it contained 3 vowels. On my first try, 3 letters were fixed, but they were in the wrong places. So, I started generating anagrams in my mind only with the three letters and came up with the word DANCE. That word fixed 2 positions for the correct letters. That made my next guessing simpler.
![[Image: eTsKLuA.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/eTsKLuA.jpg)
In the following example, I started with the general word IDEAL as it contained 3 vowels. On my first try, 3 letters were fixed, but they were in the wrong places. So, I started generating anagrams in my mind only with the three letters and came up with the word DANCE. That word fixed 2 positions for the correct letters. That made my next guessing simpler.
05-07-2022, 01:22 AM
@sikandar: Thank you for adding value to the thread. I hope our suggestions will help more people who shied away from Wordle after not getting satisfactory results (or don't feel they have what it takes to solve it in the first place) to jump in with both feet. Isn't it fun?!
Layna61524
Layna61524
05-07-2022, 03:30 AM
@Layna61524, Well word games like Wordle can help us improve our vocabulary; but in these days of instant gratification, many of us do not like the idea of investing our time in building our vocabulary.
When I studied engineering, most of my classmates had a dream to pursue a master's degree in engineering or business management; and getting a high score on GRE or GMAT was the key to getting into top universities. So, I was fortunate I was surrounded by other students who wanted to improve their vocabulary. Playing word games was our favorite pastime then.
During those days, I got my hands on the book "30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary" ... and when I read the preface of the book, what hit me then was the relationship between income levels, job position, and vocabulary. Here is a copy of that page. I think that one reason is good enough for anyone to pursue building a powerful vocabulary. And, games like Wordle, Hangman, Scrabble surely help us to keep our enthusiasm at a high level.
![[Image: 5tHCXHw.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/5tHCXHw.jpg)
When I studied engineering, most of my classmates had a dream to pursue a master's degree in engineering or business management; and getting a high score on GRE or GMAT was the key to getting into top universities. So, I was fortunate I was surrounded by other students who wanted to improve their vocabulary. Playing word games was our favorite pastime then.
During those days, I got my hands on the book "30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary" ... and when I read the preface of the book, what hit me then was the relationship between income levels, job position, and vocabulary. Here is a copy of that page. I think that one reason is good enough for anyone to pursue building a powerful vocabulary. And, games like Wordle, Hangman, Scrabble surely help us to keep our enthusiasm at a high level.